Psalms 58
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Psalm 58
For the choir director; al tashcheth; a miktam by David.
1Do you rulers really give fair verdicts?
Do you judge Adam’s descendants fairly?
2No, you invent new crimes on earth,
and your hands spread violence.
3 ⌞Even⌟ inside the womb wicked people are strangers ⌞to God⌟.
From their birth liars go astray.
4They have poisonous venom like snakes.
They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears
5so that it cannot hear the voice of a snake charmer
or of anyone trained to cast spells.
6O God, knock the teeth out of their mouths.
Break the young lions’ teeth, O Lord.
7Let them disappear like water that drains away.
When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.
8Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail
or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9Let ⌞God⌟ sweep them away
faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
10Righteous people will rejoice when they see ⌞God⌟ take revenge.
They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11Then people will say,
“Righteous people certainly have a reward.
There is a God who judges on earth.”
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Psalm 58
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God Who Judges the Earth
To the choirmaster: according to #See Ps. 57, title Do Not Destroy. A #See Ps. 16, titleMiktam#58:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term of David.
1Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?#58:1 Or you mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
2No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands #[Ps. 94:20]deal out violence on earth.
3The wicked are #Ps. 51:5; Isa. 48:8estranged from the womb;
they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
4 #
Ps. 140:3; [Deut. 32:33] They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5so that it #Jer. 8:17does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning enchanter.
6O God, #Ps. 3:7; Job 4:10; 29:17break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7Let them #Ps. 112:10; Josh. 7:5 vanish like water that runs away;
when he #Ps. 64:3aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
8Let them be like the snail #[See ver. 7 above] that dissolves into slime,
like #See Job 3:16the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of #Ps. 118:12; Eccles. 7:6 thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he #[Job 27:21; See Prov. 10:25]sweep them away!#58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
10 #
Deut. 32:43; See Job 22:19 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will #Ps. 68:23bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11Mankind will say, “Surely there is #Isa. 3:10 a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who #Ps. 67:4; 94:2; Gen. 18:25; Job 19:29; Eccles. 12:14judges on earth.”
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